* FAST FOOD FIRST: Fast food chain McDonald's has opened its 27th Northern Ireland outlet and created 80 jobs in the process. The £3 million 85-seater restaurant on the Boucher Road features a dual-lane drive thru and will be open 24-hours a day. Mark Hawthorne, managing director of McDonald's UK is pictured, left, at the new premises with franchisee Paul Connan. It is the first McDonald's in Ireland to have a touch screen ordering service, delivering quicker service for customers. McDonald's opened its first restaurant in Belfast in 1991 and now employs more than 2,100 people in the north. ? Story in full ? P34
